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08.26.2007, 03:07 PM

Forgot to mention before, but I have some news about my capacitor mod. I decided to loose the 4 small 330uf caps in favour of another big Novak 2700uf jobby ( 2 in total, wired in parallel ). Did it make a difference? YES. Esc temps were no different than normal really, but the thing I did notice was that towards the end of the run the power was still delivered smoothly. By this I mean before I added the extra cap, in the last 3-5 minutes of a run the batteries would 'dump', and the caps would be be providing the power on & off whilst they 'emptied' , then recharged, then emptied again. Hard to desribe, but it sounded like I was trying to change gear ( motor revs up, then dies, then revs up again, then dies & so on ). Now however, theres none of this, and the truck just runs solidly until the last few minutes when the power starts to drop off, then in the last minute or so it really slows down & I call it a day for that set of batteries. Shame the Novak caps cost $10 and you cant get fewer than a bundle of 100 or so per auction on feebay of similar types, otherwise I would add another one or two just to experiment.

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